Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) form the lining of the smallest blood vessels in the liver, also called the hepatic sinusoids. LSECs are highly...

found attached to sinusoidal endothelial cells in both the centrilobular and periportal regions of the hepatic lobules. Kupffer cell function and structures...

liver sinusoid has a larger caliber than other types of capillaries and has a lining of specialised endothelial cells known as the liver sinusoidal endothelial...

A hepatocyte is a cell of the main parenchymal tissue of the liver. Hepatocytes make up 80% of the liver's mass. These cells are involved in: Protein synthesis...

total number of liver cells but only 6.5% of its volume. The liver sinusoids are lined with two types of cell, sinusoidal endothelial cells, and phagocytic...

space of the liver, also known as the space of Disse (a small area between the sinusoids and hepatocytes). The stellate cell is the major cell type involved...

(fibroblasts), vascular cells (endothelial cells, pericytes), immune cells (granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells,) and neural cells. A large amount...

the liver, although the structure and position of the gallbladder can vary significantly among animal species. It receives bile, produced by the liver, via...

(inferior). Bile is required for the digestion of food and is secreted by the liver into passages that carry bile toward the hepatic duct. It joins the cystic...

of the liver, ligamentum teres or ligamentum teres hepatis is a ligament that forms part of the free edge of the falciform ligament of the liver. It connects...

liver sinusoidal endothelial cells. Ligands that are efficiently cleared from blood by receptor-mediated endocytosis in liver sinusoidal endothelial cells...

the accessory organs of digestion (the tongue, salivary glands, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder). Digestion involves the breakdown of food into smaller...

the cell system that Aschoff described as RES in the liver were liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs), but not liver macrophages (Kupffer cells). In...

A liver segment is one of eight segments of the liver as described in the widely used Couinaud classification (named after Claude Couinaud) in the anatomy...

endothelium. For instance, the liver has been highly implicated as an area of damage upon infection. Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSEC) express a variety...

synthesized by hepatocytes (liver cells); the rest are extracted from the blood by the liver. Bile is secreted by the liver into small ducts that join...

In human anatomy, the liver is divided grossly into four parts or lobes: the right lobe, the left lobe, the caudate lobe, and the quadrate lobe. Seen...

area of the liver (nonperitoneal area) is a large triangular area on the diaphragmatic surface of the liver. It is the only part of the liver with no peritoneal...

of liver, or hepatic lobules, are small divisions of the liver defined at the microscopic scale. The hepatic lobule is a building block of the liver tissue...

macrophages, immature dendritic cells and liver sinusoidal endothelial cells, but is also expressed on the surface of skin cells such as human dermal fibroblasts...

Medical Center Anatomy image:7957 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center Liver at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (biliarysystem)...

progenitor cells are precursor cells that differentiate into the functional pancreatic cells, including exocrine acinar cells, endocrine islet cells, and ductal...

Histology Learning System at Boston University - "Liver, Gall Bladder, and Pancreas: pancreas, centroacinar cells" UIUC Histology Subject 870 Portal: Anatomy...

SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: The Gallbladder and the Bile System" liver at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown...

Lanza, Robert; Langer, Robert; Vacanti, Joseph (eds.), "Chapter 45 - Liver Stem Cells", Principles of Tissue Engineering (Fourth Edition), Boston: Academic...

fissure of the liver is a short but deep fissure, about 5 cm long, extending transversely beneath the left portion of the right lobe of the liver, nearer its...

Microanatomy Hepatocyte Hepatic stellate cell Kupffer cell Liver sinusoidal endothelial cell Biliary tract Pancreas Gross Tail Body Neck Head (Uncinate process)...

the cell population of the liver, with the other 20% being occupied by Kupffer cells, hepatic stellate cells, endothelial cells and mesothelial cells, which...

stellate cells (also known as Ito cells or lipocytes), which store vitamin A in characteristic lipid droplets. This space may be obliterated in liver disease...

Microanatomy Hepatocyte Hepatic stellate cell Kupffer cell Liver sinusoidal endothelial cell Biliary tract Pancreas Gross Tail Body Neck Head (Uncinate process)...